I have spent so many hours (at least 40) reading books and looking at websites trying to identify this piece.

I recently acquired a porcelain pitcher and bowl from an estate sale, and the previous owner’s daughter believed the item to be more than 200 years old. On the bottom of both the pitcher and bowl is an incised mark that looks like a very loopy scripted “CC” on one, but more like an “E” on the other. One is marked with a “/75” and one is marked with a “75.” I found a similar mark in the “E” section of Kovels database that had “1779” under the loopy “E.” The only information it provided was that it was from Derby, England. In an out-of-print book I found online, I found a “CC” as a pottery mark that looked similar, but the only information it had was that it was from the 1700s and its country of origin was England. A few of the other items I collected from this estate were from the 1700s, and it came from a mansion in historic Lynchburg, VA.

The picture I attached has an image of the pitcher and bowl, as well as the two signatures. I darkened the signatures to make it easier to see on the image.

Can anyone provide me with any information about this piece? Has anyone ever seen anything like it? Do you believe that the “E” in the Kovels database is the same as the one on this pitcher?

Any comments, helpful tips, etc. would be appreciated. I’m an amateur to collecting, and this piece is so beautiful to me. I’ve never seen anything like it (not exactly), and I can’t stop thinking about it until I have some answers. :woohoo:

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